Olympics

Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics was undercut by its own mayor, its skeptical public and, finally, leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee, who were tired of the city's ever-changing blueprint. Next, it might be time to see if there is more Olympic love in Los Angeles. After the USOC and Boston cut ties on Monday, CEO Scott Blackmun said the federation still wants to try to host the 2024 Games. The USOC has until Sept. 15 to officially name its candidate. Several Olympic leaders have quietly been pushing Los Angeles — the city that invented the modern-day template for the Olympics when it played host in 1984 — as the best possible substitute. San Francisco and...

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Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics is over.The city and the U.S. Olympic Committee severed ties after a board teleconference Monday, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky told The Associated Press.The decision throws the bid process — and hopes that the...

Just a few weeks ago, Topton's Bobby Lea, a two-time U.S. Olympian gunning for yet his third chance to represent the U.S. with a bid for the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, shattered the 10-mile record at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown.
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As one of the top marathoners in the U.S., Northampton High School and Penn State graduate Tyler McCandless is used to the hard, unforgiving efforts to prepare himself for competition.But no training method, no psychology course, no mental reflection...

TORONTO — Women's baseball made history Monday at the Pan Am Games, the first time it's been played in a large, multi-sport event.
There was no live television coverage at the debut, and perhaps only 200 fans saw the first pitch as American left hander...

Last year, it came down to the final race.
U.S. Olympic hopeful Kim Geist of Emmaus and Kutztown's Colleen Hayduk, both homegrown products of the world class developmental programs at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown, were fighting...

Olympian and Central Catholic High School graduate Lauren Tamayo is among a dozen athletes with ties to the Lehigh Valley or Penn State University who are representing the United States in the Pan American Games in Toronto this month.The games began on...

Scott Gordon got a phone call from Philadelphia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall last Thursday.On Monday, Hextall named him new head coach of the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Flyers who will be celebrating their...

The Lehigh Valley has been home to some of the greatest — and most well-known — athletes in the world.
One was heavyweight champion of the world. Another was an Olympic champion in cycling. Two others are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And another won...

From some very modest beginnings nearly a half century ago — in their backyard, a barn with no heat, a church basement, shared gym time in Allentown's Trexler Middle School and the upper floors of a former burlesque theater — to a state of the art...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 1984 Summer Olympic Torch that Bruce Jenner carried through Lake Tahoe, Nevada, is going on the auction block where it could fetch $20,000 or more.
It's the first major piece of Jenner memorabilia to go to auction since the winner...

Unstoppable "beast" or erratic turnover machine? Eccentric "weirdo" or boring and blithe? Last-second hero or season-ending liability?Choker or champion?As U.S. Women's National Team midfielder Carli Lloyd stepped onto the field for...

Atop BC Place's championship stage Sunday, 21 U.S. women's national team players formed a semi-circle around Abby Wambach and Christie Rampone. The squad's longest-serving members accepted the gold-plated World Cup trophy from FIFA senior vice president...

The 11-year-old Californian tried softball, then soccer, even ice skating.She "failed miserably" at each one.Then, Deena Kastor just started running — all the way to the Olympics.And the now 43-year-old hasn't stopped since."From the...

Megan Rapinoe is so done with her exile to the spectators' seats at the Women's World Cup.
Bring on Germany, said the U.S. midfielder, who had to sit out the 1-0 victory over China in the quarterfinals of soccer's biggest tournament. The...

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Rene Wolff was just 12 years old when the Berlin Wall fell, so he had no political ideologies to deal with when his hometown of Erfurt, East Germany, assimilated into the unified German state.But that day, Aug. 19, 1989, helped shape the man Wolff was...

New Zealand's Eddie Dawkins and Canada's Monique Sullivan went about their tasks in different ways, but both proved their points Friday night in Trexlertown.
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And so it began under the Friday Night Lights in Trexlertown.
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There's a reason the 40th anniversary season of professional cycling at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown is kicking off with a bang tonight.The World Series of Bicycling, the Friday night summer international professional racing...

Anthony Peden's best days as a cyclist were spent racing for New Zealand, but he feels like he's at home for the next month.
Peden, who made his mark as an outstanding racer at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in the 1990s and 2000s while winning a...